Michael Isikoff

A U.S. ambassador is the latest to charge that John Bolton has engaged in some 'undiplomatic' behavior.

Jack Abramoff was somber, bitter and feeling betrayed. Once a Washington superlobbyist, Abramoff is now the target of a Justice Department criminal probe of allegations that he defrauded American Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in fees.

When a Senate panel released a report last year on the disastrously bad intelligence on Iraq, it included an intriguing e-mail that showed how intensely the administration was looking for damning evidence against Saddam.

An apparent setback in an alleged Russian espionage case may raise more questions for a besieged FBI.

A White House aide warns of growing terror threats and urges the president to act. "It is impossible," the aide writes in a memo, "to rule out the possibility of a major terrorist attack in the United States." It could have been written during the early Bush administration when counterterror adviser Richard Clarke was warning that Al Qaeda was poised to strike.

After his secretary conveyed psychic Jeane Dixon's prophecies about terrorism, president Nixon ordered Henry Kissinger and others to prepare for attacks.

A Pentagon report last week absolved top Defense officials of any blame for abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq. But the inquiries--and the political fallout--are not over.

The FBI is trying to trace what happened to $2.5 million in payments to a conservative Washington think tank that were routed to accounts controlled by two lobbyists with close ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, NEWSWEEK has learned.

Unless the Blair government can win approval for new legislation, a little-noticed British court decision could soon lead to the release of Al Qaeda-linked suspects.

The confession came quickly, and it sounded damning. After a few days of allegedly rough interrogation, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali--a soft-spoken high-school valedictorian from the Washington, D.C., suburbs--either cracked or simply told his questioners what they wanted to hear.

Sources say the suspect in a plot to assassinate President Bush has been linked to a leading Al Qaeda figure in Saudi Arabia. Plus: Zarqawi may be too busy to launch attacks inside the U.S.

The Justice Department's surprise decision to charge a young American accused of planning to assassinate President Bush could raise tough questions about U.S. treatment of terror suspects--and embarrass one of America's allies.

Only weeks before Halliburton made headlines by announcing it was pulling out of Iran--a nation George W. Bush has labeled part of the "axis of evil"--the Texas-based oil services firm quietly signed a major new business deal to help develop Tehran's natural gas fields.

In recent months, an odd message has popped up on some radical Islamic Web sites. Readers are encouraged to use their computers to advance the cause of jihad.

FBI Director Robert Mueller will have to tell frustrated senators next week what's gone wrong with the bureau's computer overhaul. The project--known as Virtual Case File--has been central to Mueller's plans to modernize the bureau's computer capabilities (at the time of 9/11, agents couldn't even do Google searches).

While U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Michael Chertoff skillfully sailed through his confirmation hearings today to be the new secretary of Homeland Security, he is almost certain to face much choppier waters very soon--when he takes over an unwieldy department starved for funds and riddled by bureaucratic turf battles that only seem to be escalating by the day.Homeland Security's internal battles have gotten so great, sources tell NEWSWEEK, that the department had to hire an outside accounting...

Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners.

The White House would like to chalk it up to partisan politics. But the unexpectedly narrow, 10-8 party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Alberto Gonzales as attorney general was really the product of deep-seated frustration among moderate Democrats over the White House counsel's refusal to answer key questions about his role in shaping legal policies for combating terrorism.

Former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp has been questioned by the FBI about his dealings with an Iraqi-American businessman who this week became the target of the first Justice Department criminal indictment in the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, NEWSWEEK has learned.

Ibraham Al Qosi's stories seemed fairly outlandish when they first surfaced last fall. In a lawsuit, Al Qosi, a Sudanese accountant apprehended after 9/11 on suspicions of ties to Al Qaeda, charged that he and other detainees at Guantanamo Bay had been subjected to bizarre forms of humiliation and abuse by U.S. military inquisitors.

The messages are coming more frequently now and have a new tone. does that mean a new U.S. attack is imminent?

Investigators are struggling to find concrete evidence of fraud and corruption in the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq

In an effort to crack down on one of the world's most notorious international criminals, President George W. Bush last summer signed an order barring U.S. citizens from doing business with Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout.

Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, a secret memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' office concluded that President Bush had the power to deploy military force "preemptively" against any terrorist groups or countries that supported them--regardless of whether they had any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Towers or the Pentagon.The memo, written by Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, argues that there are effectively "no limits" on the president's authority to wage...

The White House publicly bemoaned Congress's failure to pass a sweeping measure to overhaul the U.S. intelligence community--a top 9/11 Commission recommendation--and said it would press to revive the bill soon.

A judge is ordering government workers to waive their confidentiality agreements with journalists. What impact will the controversial tactic have on the media's ability to report news?

On the face of it, a little-noticed report in a London-based Arabic-language newspaper last week seemed to signal a major victory in the Bush administration's international campaign to crack down on alleged financiers of Islamic terrorism.

New intelligence suggests that Al Qaeda was planning to attack London, not U.S. financial centers, in the run-up to the presidential election. A Kerry adviser blames politics for the timing of the government's summer alert

President George W. Bush counts Libya's decision to give up its nuclear-weapons program--a move that helped thaw relations with the longtime pariah regime of Col.

The CIA is keeping the lid on a hard-hitting report about agency officials who might be held accountable for 9/11 intel failures. The report identifies a host of current and former officials who could be candidates for possible disciplinary procedures imposed by a special CIA Accountability Board, sources familiar with the document tell NEWSWEEK.